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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about subjects related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New changes in electronic educational technology are making it possible for people in nations all aver the world to participate in courses online. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning organizations must deal with today because online learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can learners certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Kyrgyzstan to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this increasing need for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also describes the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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